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The midterm elections flip several House seats in favor of Democratic candidates with STEM backgrounds.

Young rats injected with a synthetic cannabinoid have more of the brain’s motivating dopaminergic signaling and fewer numbers of inhibitory neurons than controls.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust agree not to cover the fees that some hybrid open-access journals charge authors to make their work freely available.

The purchase adds long-read sequencing to Illumina’s portfolio.

Some of the longevity that appears to run in families can instead be attributed to people choosing life partners with similar characteristics.

People who have suffered traumatic brain injury had slower reaction times and more false starts after disrupted sleep than healthy controls, according to a study presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting.

EncrypGen will enable individuals to sell their deidentified data for research.

The new data could help identify treatments for diseases ranging from river blindness to schistosomiasis.

Offspring of rats exposed to vaporized cannabis had difficulty switching strategies to get a sugar reward, according to a study presented at the Society for Neuroscience conference.

The results cannot be extrapolated to humans, researchers caution.

As people move to the United States from Southeast Asia, the microbes in their digestive tracts begin to Westernize, possibly explaining high rates of obesity and other metabolic issues in these immigrant populations.

Only after the accusations appeared on Twitter did Vanderbilt suspend neuroscientist David Sweatt.